Windows Server 2012

The DHCP failover feature was introduced in Windows Server 2012. Prior to Server 2012, you had various options to implement fault tolerance for the DHCP server service, but they all had their drawbacks, and could not ensure DHCP server service availability…Read more

In Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, you could not switch between the Server Core and Server With A GUI options, post-installation. If you chose to install Server with a GUI (called Full Installation in 2008/2008R2) or Server Core, you…Read more

By utilizing NIC Teaming, also known as load balancing and failover (LBFO), you can combine multiple network interface adapters to create a single logical NIC to provide fault tolerance or bandwidth aggregation for your network connections. Adapters that are members of…Read more

The fine-grained password policies feature was introduced in Windows Server 2008. It allowed organizations to define more than one password and account lockout policy in a single domain, and apply those policies to different sets of users. Prior to Windows…Read more

Occasionally you will have to install appliances and applications, which will not utilize Kerberos, SASL or NTLM to communicate with Active Directory Domain Services. They will rather use simple BIND, which exposes the users’ credentials in clear text. So anyone…Read more

In this blog post we will look at how to take ownership of files and folders, with the takeown.exe command. This can be useful in situations where you are unable to assign permissions to a file or folder, because you…Read more

By default logging is disabled for all network profiles in Windows Firewall. So if you want to log dropped packets, or successful connections, you will have to enable logging of these occurrences. You can choose to enable logging locally on…Read more

This is part 3, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW. In this part we will look at how to create Dynamic Volumes, and the options available during creation of Dynamic Volumes. We will also look…Read more

This is part 2, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW. In this part we will look at how to create Dynamic Disk Groups, and how to add Volume Manager Disk Groups as a resource in…Read more

In this blog post we will look at managing storage with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows. This is part 1, in a series of posts about managing storage with Veritas SFW. In this part, we will look at the different…Read more